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Ian Linkletter’s collection of education tech privacy impact assessments
via Cory Doctorow
Ian Linkletter, a Canadian University Librarian has used FOI laws to collect privacy impact assessments (PIA) from as many Canadian Universities as he can, to explore the prevalence of educational technology companies operating unethically.
He’s published those on a site called the Canadian Privacy Library.
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Long COVID is still being understood – Lancet article
New Lancet article exploring the science of long COVID
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S014067362401136X
and the author’s lay persons’ translation
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AI not increasing productivity
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/accountability-sinks/ – AI is not producing the productivity gains that our leaders are being sold on.
And a good reference to an Upwork research paper with C-suite executives and their experiences of implementing AI in their workplace.
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Questions product owners and solution designers need to answer
Some excellent suggestions from Ben Werd about the kinds of questions product owners need to ask their teams and the business they’re in.
https://werd.io/2024/what-i-want-to-see-from-every-product-team
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Fixing Classical Cats Director game to run in emulation
Misty De Meo recounts the story of debugging the restoration of Classical Cats — a Macromedia/Macromind Director game originally distributed on mixed-mode CD-ROM i.e. a CD with a data partition and a digital audio track partition. ScummVM is the emulation software used.